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It’s official: Contraband-detecting dogs will pay 30 visits to Santa Barbara’s secondary schools next year according to a contract the district signed with Interquest Detection Canines. If you have children in Santa Barbara Unified and would like to know exactly how the searches will affect them or if you are merely an interested community member, Interquest is providing three public demonstrations at the following times and locations:

Thursday, May 17, 6:30 p.m.: San Marcos High School, cafeteria.

Monday, May 21, 6:30 p.m.: Santa Barbara High School theater.

Thursday, May 24, 6:30 p.m.: Dos Pueblos High School, cafeteria.

Interquest canines search for illegal drugs, commonly abused prescription medications, and gunpowder. The Santa Barbara Independent accompanied Interquest on a school search last month. To read about it, click on the link below.

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Let's all do our part and smear a little weed on your kids pants, smear it on their friends backpacks, sprinkle it under the teachers desk, sprinkle it in the ventilation leuvers of the bully's locker. There is so much fun we could have.

Typical Santa Barbara. Drugs have been in the schools since at least the sixties but SB spends 40 years talking, talking, and planning. Students used to be busted and treated when stoned or drunk.Personally, I feel the more you put kids into a police state environment in the schools, the more it breeds bad behavior. Prisoners and enslaved citizens will always revolt. I say take down the physical and symbolic fences, treat the kids like adults and just deal with drug and alcohol incidents as they occur. Just like in the adult world.

The gang members are used to this or have to get to used to this because this is what awaits them in prison. The children of illegal immigrants won't say nothing because they could get in trouble and they have probably seen worst regimes, so this is reasonable still.I am surprised that everybody else just rolled over on this.

Let me guess, your Drug War money hard on work on this one? If you aren't happy, then its time to start making some changes in our lawmakers, and time to start letting them know that WE don't agree with the Drug War or it coming to our schools.